3 December 2020 Joan Jett I sure saw a lot of kids that I’m sure didn’t know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we’d talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I’m sure we made a lot of new fans.
3 December 2020 David Hume A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
3 December 2020 Johnny Carson I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.
3 December 2020 Wale I’m very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn’t fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
3 December 2020 Patsy Cline I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I’m worried because I have a brand-new record, and it’s called Crazy!
3 December 2020 Paul Theroux A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It’s not about inventing.
3 December 2020 Albert Ellis For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
3 December 2020 Mitch McConnell Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?
3 December 2020 Lemuel K. Washburn Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
3 December 2020 Alison Sweeney I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I’m making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it’s always for them.
3 December 2020 Barbara Sher When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
3 December 2020 Angelo Scola We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Safran Foer Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
3 December 2020 William Gibson It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words ‘Ich bin ein Berliner!’
3 December 2020 Barack Obama My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
3 December 2020 Molly Ivins Many a time freedom has been rolled back – and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
3 December 2020 Lucy Maud Montgomery In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
3 December 2020 Tony Stewart Get in the race car do what I do then go home. We don’t have freedom to do anything anymore.
3 December 2020 Fred Allen Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
3 December 2020 Ayn Rand Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Lethem The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
3 December 2020 Sophocles If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
